Iron Man, embracing women

Sat Apr 25 16:22:00 2009

Iron Man - Update One

Well ... wow. Over forty contenders so far, and that doesn't even include
me. The planet is now available here, many thanks to Jess Robinson and her partner James Mastros (aka theorbtwo). I'm scared now,
I think there's actually a reasonable chance I'm going to lose (see the
original post to understand why that's scary :)

Iron Man - Embracing Women

Well, apparently we aren't obviously inclusive enough. This didn't really
occur to me because the Marvel character's called Iron Man and so was the
webcomic competition
that gave me the idea in the first place. So, yes, obviously signups are
open to either gender, and yes, there will be female versions of the badges
- a draft of the Paper Woman badge is here. And, no, there is
absolutely no reason you have to use it if you're female and prefer the
Paper Man badge. Use whichever one makes you happy, it'll be an argument to
the script that serves the badges. And anybody who doesn't think I consider
the fairer sex at least the equals of my own[0] should try being genuinely
sexist in front of my mother, who used to get on rather well with Germaine
Greer and with whom I have never yet won an argument. Nor, indeed has anybody
else I can think of, and I'm about the only one who can claim to get more than one
score draw in ten ...

Oh, and no, we don't give a crap what language you blog in. Our common
language is perl, and you almost certainly speak both perl and English better
than I speak whatever your native tongue is, so I wouldn't have a leg to stand
on to complain and I try to avoid hypocrisy to spend more time on sarcasm,
arrogance and condescension :)

Finally, since this is now my second meta post in a row, I'm going to
include some bonus perl content to try and reassure myself I'm still a
programmer rather than a marketer:

< psychoslave> ok, I wrote $c->model('DB::Author')->get_names->($work_search_by_author)->search_related('work_authors')->search_related('fkid_work')
< psychoslave> and I get "Not a CODE reference"
<@mst> ->get_names->(
<@mst> $coderef->(
< psychoslave> ?
< psychoslave> Sorry I dont' understand
<@mst> you know how you can invoke a code refernece
<@mst> by doing $code_ref->(
<@mst> ?
<@mst> your code does
<@mst> $c->model('DB::Author')->get_names->($work_search_by_author)
< psychoslave> no, I don't know
<@mst> let me break it up for you
<@mst> my $value = $c->model('DB::Author')->get_names;
<@mst> $value->($work_search_by_author)
<@mst> you didn't want the -> after get_names
< psychoslave> oh yeah
<@mst> do you mind if I use your mistake as an example for a blog entry at some point?
<@mst> I keep seeing people do it, so I should write it up
< psychoslave> well of course you can take this as an example
< psychoslave> It's not like I could say no anyway, is it ? :)

[0] If you didn't like the subtitle on this section, it was suggested
by Gerda Shank. Feel free to go tell her it was sexist towards women,
I just thought it was funny and so did Jess.